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Curious Geckos: The Most Precise CSS-only Position-Aware Mini-Game

A CSS-only, no JS, no checkbox, position-aware (hover/touch aware) interactive gecko-luring game.

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A Look at Gender Demographics in the Developer Community, Part 1

I asked some of the biggest programming YouTubers to share their demographics data.

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Why We’re Breaking Up with CSS-in-JS

What originally attracted me to CSS-in-JS, and why I have decided to shift away from it.

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Making the world’s fastest website, and other mistakes

Crazed developer attempts real ecommerce without front-end JavaScript to prove that y’all playin’

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CSS as the backend: introducing Cascading Server Sheets!

Here we go again! Another one of these, and I promise, you will be questioning my sanity after this.

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Stay alert

A short while ago, Chrome broke the web by disabling alert(), confirm() and prompt() dialogs from cross-origin iframes.

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CSS Grid Cheat Sheet Illustrated

Let's refresh Our CSS Grid Memory. Here's a Cheat Sheet of everything you can do with Grid to get started in 2021!

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21 Bad Front-End Habits to Drop in 2021

Forget the gym, here are some resolutions you’ll actually keep

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Why Tailwind Isn’t for Me

I think the folks building Tailwind are talented and nice people. But at a pure technical level, I simply don’t like Tailwind.

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In defense of the modern web

The modern web has flaws, and we should talk about them. But let's not give up on it.

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The Theory: A Semantic Color System

This post is the first in a three-part series about how our team at YNAB thinks about color in our design system.

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A new technique for making responsive, JavaScript-free charts

There are countless libraries for generating charts on the web. All of them have one thing in common: they require JavaScript.

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7 CSS properties you had no idea about

There are some CSS properties out there that I had absolutely no idea about.

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Flash Grid: learn CSS Grid by building a grid system

Lately, I've been experimenting with the idea of building a lightweight grid system based on CSS Grid.

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Accessibility Tips for Web Developers

There are at least six key areas of disability we can optimize for: visual, hearing, mobility, cognition, speech and neural.

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Optimizing images for the web - an in-depth guide

Unoptimized (non-minified) images are one of the main causes of poor website performance, mainly on the initial (first) load.

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CSS :empty Selector

Often, we want to style elements that contain content. How about when an element has no children or text at all?

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Creating Pixel Art with CSS

This article will show you how using CSS (and a tiny bit of HTML), you can use code to make your own pixel art creations.

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HTML can do that?

After witnessing some awesome things CSS can do, it's time for HTML to come in the same spotlight!

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CSS can do that?

A list of amazing things that CSS can do!